Five, including 70-yr-old woman, booked after minor sisters go missing

NOIDA: Five people, including a 70-year-old woman, were booked by the Jarcha police for allegedly kidnapping two teenage sisters, who have been missing since November 6.

The incident was reported from Khatana village from where the sisters, aged 14 and 16, allegedly went missing. The suspects, four men and an elderly woman, are natives of the neighbouring village of Dhanibas.

According to the girls’ family, they were asleep when the girls went missing, the police said.

“The family filed a missing persons’ complaint on the morning of November 6 after which a case of kidnapping was registered a day later. Prime facie, it seems that the older girl was on friendly terms with one of the suspects, who is 19 years old,” said Anil Kumar, station house officer of the Jarcha police station.

A case of kidnapping was registered against the five suspects based on the complaint lodged by the girls’ father, a farmer.

Police officers suspect the girls have gone away on their own as the younger girl’s school documents are also missing.

“We have arrested two men who are friends with the prime accused. We are questioning them to find more details about the whole episode. The elderly woman is the grandmother of one of the arrested men. The girl’s family insists she played a role in their daughters’ disappearance,” superintendent of police (rural) Kumar Rannvijay Singh said.

Police officers said the other three accused are absconding from their houses and a search is on for them and the girls. Multiple teams have been formed, the police said. “We are probing all angles,” the SP said.

The family refused to comment on the matter.